3-D Sweet Treat Halloween Fun House

It's another Monday and that means another Bitten by the Bug 2 weekly challenge.  This week's challenge cut was selected by our sweet design team member, Jeri.  Jeri chose for us to use any 3D box for a project of our choice.  I love this fun little house on the Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge and thought it might look great
dressed up for Halloween.
 

I began by making this elegant black and white cardstock for the house sides. Using my Cricut Imagine and the Teresa Collins Black and White cartridge I printed two sheets of the black and white print above. I then cut the house sides. Next I cut the roof, window, and door trim in solid black cardstock.

I used an interlocking circle embossing folder to emboss the roof piece. The roof tag was cut using the Happy Hauntings cartridge with gray and white cardstock. Black Stickles were used to fill in the word Spooky. As a final touch I added ecru lace to the edge of the roof.

Using Happy Hauntings, I cut a Mr. Bones and affixed him to the corner of the roof. Mr. Bones is sporting black pearl eyes and a few white gel pen doodles.

Using the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge, I cut a few white spider webs. I snipped one of the webs into quarters and used it on the house windows and roof line. I also added spider webs to the front door and end windows.

Finally I dressed up the tag and windows with black pearls and diamond bling.

Please do go by the Bitten by the Bug 2 blog and check out the design team projects - so many cute 3D boxes!  Also, please think about playing along with us and possibly becoming our weekly blog blinkie winner.  Just create your own 3D box project and post it in the linky spot at the BBTB2 blog!  We love it when our readers play along!!

Welcome Penguin Cottage Box

Happy Monday and Welcome to Penguin Cottage!  Today I am sharing my Welcome project for my new neighbor, which just also happens to be this week’s Bitten by the Bug 2 project… Two birds (penguins!!); one stone!  This week’s challenge cut was the Penguin from Jolly Holidays, but I do not have that cartridge so I used the penguin from Joys of the Season. 

I used three cartridges to create the completed box - Joys of the Season for the Penguin, Sweet Tooth Boxes for the box, and Cindy Loo for the word "Welcome".  I cut the house box so that it filled the 12 x 12 mat.  The house was much easier to assemble than many of the previous Cricut building that I have assembled.  Also, the house actually has many details that I omitted (flowers and flower boxes).   And like always, assembly instructions are available in the back of your manual!

I made it so that my penguin is actually a card which opens while still attached to the side of the house – a built in To:/From: card.   I welded two of the penguin shadow cut together to serve as the base card.  I used a light blue damask cardstock to cut the base layer of the penguin and I used a Swiss dot textured cardstock to cut the “coat”.  I covered the black cardstock with black Stickles.

I cut the word “Welcome” from Cindy Loo.  The word was cut to fit across the roof top.  The roof was cut in the same textured Swiss Dot cardstock as the penguin coat and was hand doodled in silver gel pen (my favorite white gel pen died just when I really needed it)!

I finished my Sweet Tooth box by attaching the penguin to the side and tying a fun green polka dot ribbon around the box. All I have left to do is fill the box with brownies and deliver it to my new neighbors!!

I will be at the lake this week with my scrappy girlfriends which means I will be “borrowing” Internet signal from the neighbors at the lake house. I will have several new projects to share, including an unusual bridal shower card. Hopefully everything will post.